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What intrigued Uram was a plan put forth by the Reagan Administration and the school board to integrate schools in St. Louis (where 79% of pupils are black) and surrounding suburbs (84% white). Instead of compulsory cross-district busing, they proposed to offer a remarkable reward to suburban whites who...
"I'm part of the silent majority that was heard Nov. 4 [when President Reagan was elected]," says Siljander. "My support comes from morally concerned citizens who are sick of the situation in this country." Siljander pledges to battle the Equal Rights Amendment, pornography, abortion, school busing and "big...
(7 of 11) busing, the Equal Rights Amendment, sex education in public schools, the ban on public school prayers, tough gun laws and foreign aid to leftist regimes. The main matchmaker of this coalition, New Right Strategist Paul Weyrich, explains in his precise, self-assured manner that abortion became a...
The formal causes of this separation are no great secret to anyone-busing, housing, crime, the normal distances between the too rich and the too poor. Terms like white flight and steering have become so comfortable in the national argot that one almost forgets that they are weapons. Affirmative action...
At the Edward H. Fitler Elementary School, an old building of dirty granite in working-class Philadelphia, teachers insist that boys and girls form orderly, separate lines when entering or leaving class. "Sure, it's old-fashioned and sexist," says School Principal William R. Crumley Jr., 47, "but our...